Mayawati slams SP, Congress for ‘hypocrisy’ in remembering Kanshi Ram

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025) deed retired astatine the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress, accusing them of adopting a “highly casteist and deceitful” attack towards BSP laminitis precocious Kanshi Ram portion pretending to honour his legacy.

In a station connected X, the BSP main alleged that some the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress ever displayed “deep caste bias and animosity” towards Kanshi Ram, who, she said, revived B.R. Ambedkar’s self-respect question and worked to alteration Dalits, tribals and different backward classes from the exploited to ruling sections of society.

Referring to SP main Akhilesh Yadav’s announcement to clasp a symposium connected Kanshi Ram’s decease day connected October 9, Ms. Mayawati called it “sheer hypocrisy”, which reflected his “two-faced approach”.

She besides accused the SP of betraying Kanshi Ram during his beingness and attempting to weaken the BSP question successful Uttar Pradesh.

Ms. Mayawati recalled that the SP authorities changed the sanction of the Kanshiram Nagar territory – created by the BSP authorities successful 2008 – to Kasganj retired of “caste prejudice and governmental malice”.

She besides alleged that respective institutions, universities and hospitals named aft Kanshi Ram during the BSP authorities were aboriginal renamed by the SP government, exposing its “anti-Dalit mindset”.

Ms. Mayawati criticised some the SP and the Congress for not declaring adjacent a azygous time of authoritative mourning aft Kanshi Ram died successful 2006, contempt “the full country, particularly Uttar Pradesh, being successful grief”.

She claimed the repeated attempts by the SP and the Congress leaders to retrieve Kanshi Ram from clip to clip were thing but “political opportunism and a sham aimed astatine vote-bank politics”, and urged radical to stay “alert and cautious” of specified parties.

The BSP has planned to clasp a monolithic rally connected the decease day of Kanshi Ram successful Lucknow connected October 9.